Garment lacing



March 22, 1932.

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GARMENT moms Application filed "May 12, 'J

This invention relates to an improved lacing means for garments and has special reference'to lacingmeans adapted foruse asa corset lacing. i Y

. J The present invention is'an improvement of the corset lacing arrangement disclosed and patented by me in United States Letters 7 Patent No. 1,483,702, issued February; 12,

l0 an efficient formiof lacingmeans of extremely simple construction, in which there will exist no protruding parts to cause discomforture to'the wearer, and by means of which I secure case and certainty of manipulation'and greater life for the lacingcord and corset as a whole.-

Briefly, the present invention comprehends all of the features of the arrangement'set forth in the above 'mentionedLetters Patent, but instead of the circulareyes formerly used, I have substituted for each of them 'a double loop eye, which enables the portion thereof carrying the lacing to be disposed parallel and flat against the underlying surface ofthe, garment. 'This arrangement "is particularly desirable because in laced position there is no tendency oftheeyes' to as sume an upright position and as a conse-v quence topress inwardly against the wearer. I accomplish the purpose of my invention V by means of an arrangement'of parts hereinafter described in the specification, set forth intheclaims and illustratively exemplified in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a fragmentary elevational view of'a corset provided with my" improved lacing arrangement, Figure 2 is an elevationalview of the strip of material to which the lace re- 4c is a substantially transverse sectional vie taken on lines 3+3 of Figure 1." Referring now to the drawings, A and represent the halves of an ordinary corset. Each half of the. corset is built up of the usual fabric covering 10 with interposed stays 1'1 spaced apart over the garment The halves each terminate along their ends in an edge 12 which is free and loosely supported along one set of stays 11, as illustrated paring 14:. engaging along the My invention has for its object to provide ceiving members are attached; and Figure 3' 1931; Serial 'No. 536,752. ticularly in Figures Land 3,. Aneyeletlcarry- V -,ingtape1113 is disposed over the stay ll-adjacent: each edge 12 and: is stitched to'the body ofthe corset byjparallel rows of stitchstrip 15 and interposed tape 13.

x The tape 13 is provided to support the staples 16 of the movable lace receiving members 17 TheIclosed gends Y of the, staples 16 project outwardly.ontotheedges 12 frombeneath the facing tapes-15and in each in-' stancethey carry adoubleloop eye.18,:one loop being smaller than theother and turned 7 at right angles thereto so that when'the smaller loopiencircles its staple 16- the larger 5 Y looptakes its position against and parallel to the edge 12. 1 In this manner the lacing 19 passingthrough the larger loops also fits flatly against the edges 12 thus avoiding any raised portions to press against the wearer. 7

The manipulation of a'lacingldeviceof the character just described is extremely simple. To tighten the corset :it is simply necessary to draw outwardly on the ends ofthe lacing f cord 19, and owing to the construction and arrangement of the double-loop eyes 18 the V corset edges 12 will be smoothly and uni- "formly drawn'together, without the need for pulling with the fingers at any intermediate parts of the cord. The cord after completing the tightening operation is secured by tyingthe ends together. To release the cord the knot is untied and the pressure on the halves A and B will cause the latter to spread as the lacing runs without resistance through the larger loops of the eyes 18. The substantially universally mounted eyes 18 insure ease not only in the tightening operation of the corset but in" the removal operation as well.

Furthermore, the mounting of each eye 18 accordingtothe present invention prevents any part of the loop from protruding andlengaging the wearer, since the lace receiving loop is always disposed parallel with the face of the corset edges 12.

Having described my invention and the manner in whichthe same is used, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a garment of the character described, J

sides of a facing 55 posed at an angle to the other,

the combination with the edge portions of an opening in said garment, of lacing means secured to said portions at spaced intervals, said means comprising a series of staples, and lace receiving members carried by the staples, each member comprising a double loop forming a small opening and alarger opening, the loop forming the small opening being looped about the respective staple and the loop forming the larger opening being adapted to receive the lacing therethrough, the loops of each member being bent to bring the larger loop at such an angle to the smaller loop as to enable the larger loop'to lie parallel with the surface of the edge of the garment.

2. In a garment ofthe character. described, the combination with the edge portions of an opening insaid garment, of lacingrmeans" secured'to said portions'at' spaced intervals and disposed backof the free extremities of said edge portions, said means comprising a series of staples, and a series of double orificed lace receiving members mounted on the each member: having its orifices disthe member being linked in a staple atone end and the portion of the member at the other end being disposed to lie flat against an edge portion of the garment.

3. Lacing means for garments as claimed in claim 2, in which the orifice in the end of staples,

the member receiving support in ..thestaple.-

is smaller. than the other end, the smaller orifice being suflicient' to permit the member to have substantially universal .movement with respect tothe staple.

In testimony whereof I' aflix my signature.

OSCAR WEINGAR-TEN. 

